Lie Quotes

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

Franklin P. Jones

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

Wilson Mizne

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster, Howards End

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

T. S. Eliot

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that? s all you have.

James Dean

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.

Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Henri Frdric Amiel